Re: Future trends for commercial game engines

jakovo _r wrote:
> What are the future trends for commercial game engines? Will there be =

> a time were game studios will no longer create their own home-made =

> game engines and buy existing licenses (as we do today with =

> Maya/3DSM)?  Will there be a day were it won't be worth for students to

This is very similar to how, in the '60s, it was possible for an =

application developer to "code to the metal" and write their own OS for =

a machine to run their application. (That happened again with the micros =

in the late '70s and early '80s). These days, you pretty much pick an OS =

(or a few) and use that for all your machine abstraction needs, and =

instead focus on higher-level details. There are some people who still =

make OS-es, but it's not a requirement for application development. If =

you like making an OS, you go to a school specializing in that, and then =

take a job for an OS-making company.

> And if so=85 how soon or how far do you think we are until that day comes?

We're seeing it happen right now.

Cheers,

             / h+


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